scribus - cross platform WYSIWYG desktop publishing app

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       contributors.

                                               Updated 2010-24-06                                     scribus(1)

       See http://bugs.scribus.net/ for the Scribus on-line status tracker, which is used to track  bug  reports
       and  feature  requests.   Ifyouintendtosubmitabugreportorfeaturerequest,pleasesearchthebugdatabasefirst.

       Scribus  is  an  open  source desktop publishing program. It provides true WYSIWYG editing, excellent PDF
       export facilities, and a wide range of other input and output options.

       Please see the scribus documentation at http://docs.scribus.net/ or the program's built in help for  more
       comprehensive and up-to-date documentation.

       This  man page only provides summaries of some aspects of the program's use. It's main purpose is to make
       sure you can find the full documentation quickly and easily.

$HOME/.config/scribus/
              User preferences are stored in $HOME/.config/scribus/ on Unix  or  Linux.  Most  other  paths  are
              configurable  from  the  Scribus  preferences.  Scribus  1.5 preferences are separate from Scribus
              1.3.x. User preferences for Mac OS X, OS/2 and Windows are documented in the  help  docs  (F1)  in
              Scribus.  $HOME/.config/scribus/scribus150.rc Scribus preferences file - formatted in a custom xml
              schema.    May    eventually    be    retired    in    favour    of   new   format   prefs   file.
              $HOME/.config/scribus/prefs150.xml Scribus 1.5.x preferences are separate from Scribus 1.3.x

       $HOME/.fonts/$HOME/.fonts.conf/etc/fonts
              Fontconfig, the library used by Scribus to locate fonts, is  normally  configured  with  files  in
              /etc/fonts, mainly /etc/fonts/fonts.conf and /etc/fonts/local.conf . It may also use a config file
              $HOME/.fonts.conf  and fonts in $HOME/.fonts/ . See fonts.conf(5) and the fontconfig documentation
              for more information. Note that Scribus may also use its internal font path to locate more fonts -
              see the Preferences dialog and scribus help.

       scribus - cross platform WYSIWYG desktop publishing app

       The definitive options are in the program's usage statement.  Run:  scribus--help  to  view  the  usage
       statement.

       -l,--langxx
              Overrides  the  system  locale and runs Scribus in language xx. The language is specified with the
              same POSIX language codes that are used in the LANG and LC_ALL environment variables. For example,
              English can be selected with 'en' (generic English), 'en_GB' (British English), 'en_US'  (American
              english), etc. Similarly, Deutsch can be selected with 'de' or 'de_DE'.

       -la,--langs-available
              Print  a  list  of  languages  for  which  user  interface translations are available. To use that
              language run Scribus as 'scribus -l xx' where xx is the short language code,  or  set  the  locale
              environment variables as described below.

       -v,--version
              Prints the Scribus version number and exits.

       -f,--file
              Open  the  specified  file.  It's possible to simply pass the file name as an unqualified argument
              instead of using this, though if the name begins with a - you will need to use --, eg 'scribus  --
              -myfile.sla'.

       -h,--help
              Print a brief usage summary.

       -fi,--font-info
              Shows  the  font  file  listing  as Scribus starts. This can be used for diagnosing missing glyphs
              within fonts or possible broken font files.

       -pi,--profile-info
              Shows the color profiles listing which Scribus can use. This can be used for diagnosing missing or
              broken color profiles.

       -pr,--prefs<filename>
              Use filename as path for user given preferences.

       -py,--python-script<script>[arguments...]
              Run script in Python [with optional arguments]. This option must be last option used.

       -ns,--no-splash
              Suppresses display of the splash screen during Scribus start-up.

       -nns,--never-splash
              Stop the showing of the splashscreen on startup. Writes  an  empty  file  called  .neversplash  in
              ~/.config/scribus.-sb,--swap-buttons
              Use right to left dialog button ordering (eg. Cancel/No/Yes instead of Yes/No/Cancel)

       -u,--upgradecheck
              Downloads a file from our scribus server indicating latest available versions.

       ENVIRONMENT
              Scribus  respects the standard locale environment variables. Others may be used through underlying
              libraries, such as Qt, or by programs used  by  Scribus.   http://docs.scribus.net/  and  the  in-
              program  documentation  may  note  other environment variables used by Scribus or the programs and
              libraries it uses.

       LC_ALL,LC_MESSAGES,LANG
              POSIX locale. See locale(1).  Scribus uses these three environment variables, in the listed  order
              of  precedence,  to select the language (including the user interface translation) to use. If none
              are set, it will fall back on the locale set by the underlying Qt library.

       PATH   Scribus may search the PATH for external tools if their paths are not specified  absolutely.  This
              is currently most likely to affect you if you have multiple copies of gs(1) installed. You can set
              an absolute path to the correct gs(1) in your Scribus preferences and bypass the PATH search.

       A few important environment variables from other programs are summarised here for convenience, though you
       should check the original program's documentation if you are having trouble.

       GS_FONTPATH
              GhostScript  font path. Affects the font search path for GhostScript, a component Scribus uses for
              some PostScript operations. Add new directories containing fonts to this colon-separated  list  to
              help  GhostScript  find  fonts  in  non-standard  locations.  See  gs(1)  and the GhostScript HTML
              documentation for more information.

       GS_LIB GhostScript library path. GhostScript searches this path for Fontmap files. Like GS_FONTPATH  it's
              a  colon  separated  list of directories. You will usually want to use GS_FONTPATH instead, though
              building a Fontmap file and using GS_LIB can speed things up if you have a lot of fonts. See gs(1)
              and the GhostScript HTML documentation for more information.

inkscape(1) - http://inkscape.org/

       OpenClipArt - http://openclipart.org/

       Fontmatrix - http://fontmatrix.be/

       Other affiliates may be listed in the footer on http://www.scribus.net/

       The scribus documentation site http://docs.scribus.net/ and home page http://www.scribus.net/gs(1), the gs html docs, and http://www.ghostscript.com/

       The Qt library - http://www.trolltech.com/fonts-conf(5) for info on configuring FontConfig

       scribus [-h|--help] [-v|--version] [-l|--lang language] [-la|--langs-available] [-f|--file|--] [filename]